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Definition of Endemic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality. "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
2. Noun. A disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location.
3. Adjective. Native to or confined to a certain region. "The islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
4. Noun. A plant that is native to a certain limited area. "It is an endemic found only this island"
5. Adjective. Originating where it is found. "The Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
Similar to: Native
Derivative terms: Autochthony, Indigenousness
Definition of Endemic
1. a. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
2. n. An endemic disease.
3. a. Belonging or native to a particular people or country; native as distinguished from introduced or naturalized; hence, regularly or ordinarily occurring in a given region; local; as, a plant endemic in Australia; -- often distinguished from exotic.
Definition of Endemic
1. Adjective. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs. ¹
2. Adjective. (Especially of plants and animals.) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places. ¹
3. Adjective. (Especially of diseases.) Prevalent in a particular area or region. ¹
4. Noun. An individual or species that is endemic to a region. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Endemic
1. an endemial disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Endemic
1. Present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times, said of a disease or agent. Synonym: endemial. Compare: epidemic. Origin: Gr. Endemos = dwelling in a place This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endemic
Literary usage of Endemic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"THE MEDIAN endemic INDEX In epidemiological work, it is essential that the health
officer have some system by which he may compare the incidence of disease ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1841)
"endemic influences are recognised rather by their effects than demonstrative
properties; and as they are the result of the conjoined operation of ..."
3. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"endemic Cretinism, endemic Goiter and the Goiter Heart The etiology of various
other diseases of the thyroid gland and their relation to the body as a whole ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"endemic Cretinism, endemic Goiter and the Goiter Heart The etiology of various
... endemic Cretinism That the thyroid gland is diseased or almost absent in ..."
5. Tropical diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1906)
"In the endemic districts a notable percentage of the population is affected.
It is not improbable that, as knowledge extends, the disease will be found to ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"119, July, 1916. duced from his similar treatment of the endemic forms of
Ceylon.2 Willis has proposed a new principle for explaining the distribution of ..."
7. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"An American element.—Compared with Tahiti and Fiji.— Capacities for dispersal of
the genera possessing only endemic species. ..."
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